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FOYLE FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1952 - SECT 41

Penalty for pollution.

41.(1) Subject to sub-section (2), if any person causes or knowingly permits
any deleterious matter to enter any river he shall be guilty of an offence
against this Act and shall be liable on summary conviction

(a)to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds; or

(b)where it is shown to the satisfaction of the court that the offence was
substantially a repetition or continuance of an earlier offence by him after
he had been convicted of the earlier offence, to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding six months either in addition to or in lieu of such a fine.

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall operate to penalise

Para.(a) rep. by 1966 c.17 (NI) s.211 sch.8

(b)the discharge by any person of any dye stuff or other trade effluent which
he proves is not in a state harmful to fish or other live animals.]

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